GEOMETRIDiE. — TRIPH03A. 



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More uncommon than the preceding : the only places where I 

 have found it being at Darenth and Coombe Woods, and in a lane 

 near Fulham. " Coleshill."— E^t;. W. T.Bree. " Epping, common 

 in one spot, near a bog in the forest." — Mr. Doubleday. " Strand- 

 on-the-green."— i2er;. A. H. Matthews. 



Sp. 3. Sparsaria. Alis fuscis, strigis communihus obsoletissimis saturatiorihus 

 et alhidis, atomisque utris, anticis pundo medio nigro. (Exp. alar. 1 unc.) 



Ge. Sparsaria. Hiibner.—^c. Sparsaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 139. No. 6611. 



Pale fuscous : wings with an obsolete dark waved striga and some whitish and 

 more distinct ones towards the hinder margin, on which is an interrupted 

 black line bordered externally with white 5 on the nervures are some scattered 

 black dots, and a spot of the same on the disc of the anterior wings, besides 

 which on the costa of the latter are some irregular blackish clouds, indicating 

 the origin of the usual strigae of the Geometridte. 



I believe the only locality for this species (of which I have not 

 seen the male) is the New Forest, where several examples have 

 been captured towards the end of June. 



Genus CCXVI. — Triphosa* miJii. 



Palpi moderate, rather stout, projecting in the form of a beak, clothed with 

 short scales, acute at the apex ; triarticulate, the basal joint slightly incrassated 

 and curved ; the second shorter^ a little attenuated at the apex, the terminal 

 short, ovate: maxillce long. Antennw very slender, simple in both sexes, 

 rather pubescent within in the males: head small ; forehead slightly prominent : 

 eyes globose : thorax slender : wings placed in a triangle during repose ; an- 

 terior sinuated on the hinder margin, and transversed by an unsolid central 

 fascia, lobate or crenate without ; posterior ample, indented on the hinder 

 margin with very obsolete transverse strigse : legs long, slender, posterior tibiie 

 simple. Larva with 10 legs, stout, with pale longitudinal hairs: pupa sub- 

 terranean. 



Triphosa differs from Scotosia not only by having the wings, 

 especially in the type, extremely glossy, and of dissimilar form and 

 markings, but the second joint of the palpi is manifestly shorter than 

 the basal one, and the palpi themselves are altogether shorter though 

 comparatively stouter. This and the preceding genus form the 



* T^i(pcoirK, valde lucens. 



